Richard Michael "Rik" Mayall (7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014) was an English comedian, writer and actor. He was known for his comedy partnership with Adrian Edmondson, his over-the-top, energetic portrayal of characters, and as a pioneer of alternative comedy in the early 1980s.
Adrian Edmondson gives a first-hand account of making the hit show "Bottom" with the late, great Rik Mayall. His account comes alongside contributions from a host of the show's cast, crew and fans.
Release Date:Â 2024-04-18
Character:Â Himself (Archive footage)
Vote Count:Â 2
A double offering of heavy metal madness from The Comic Strip and Bad News.
Release Date:Â 2019-11-29
Character:Â Colin Grigson
This documentary explores the legacy of one of the most notorious British sitcoms of all time. Launching alternative comedy onto our screens, the show made household names of its performers and writers and proved to be a huge influence, despite the BBC reportedly being baffled by what they'd commissioned back in 1982. Never before had a flagship comedy show contained so much violence, depravity and anarchy - it was a shot across the bow to mainstream comedians that things would never be the same again.
Release Date:Â 2018-05-26
Character:Â (Archive Footage)
Vote Count:Â 2
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Roald Dahl’s birth, film and television personalities take turns championing their favourite of Dahl's 10 best-selling children’s books, culminating in a nationwide vote. Rik Mayall reads from George’s Marvellous Medicine.
Release Date:Â 2016-09-04
Character:Â Self
Vote Count:Â 1
A cafe worker is violently jolted from her day-to-day existence when offered the startling revelation that this world may be on the brink of destruction, revolution—or both.
Release Date:Â 2015-06-21
Character:Â Ernest
Vote Count:Â 5
Julia has a good job and has two children with the caring Paul. But there are antidepressants in the kitchen drawer. She had imagined her life so differently when she was young and fantasized about it with her brother Jimmy. Their tragic farewell was twenty years ago, but still gnawing at her. After a fight with Paul, Julia decides to change course radically. She leaves - in the spirit of Jimmy - for the Portuguese Algarve. As she gets to know the mysterious gigolo Romeo, Julia's past comes closer than ever.
Release Date:Â 2015-04-30
Character:Â Eddie
Vote Count:Â 16
Comedian Rik Mayall died suddenly on 9 June 2014. Mayall's blend of rocket-fuelled physical comedy, surrealism, subversive satire and pompous punk wit left a body of work that spanned four decades. Mayall's characters include the Black Country's investigative nerd Kevin Turvey, Felicity Kendal-adoring student and 'People's Poet' Rik in The Young Ones, ruthless MP Alan B'Stard in The New Statesman, seedy loser Richie in Bottom and larger-than-life characters Robin Hood and flying ace Lord Flashheart from Blackadder. Narrated by Simon Callow, this programme salutes Rik Mayall and celebrates his part in the UK's comedy history using rare and unseen archive footage. It also features contributions from people who knew or admired him, including Michael Palin, Simon Pegg, Lenny Henry, Ben Elton, Alexei Sayle, Christopher Ryan, Tim McInnerny, Jools Holland, Ruby Wax and Greg Davies.
Release Date:Â 2014-12-20
Character:Â Self
Vote Count:Â 13
Dan is a childish idiot trapped in an adult’s life, whose world is at near collapse. His girlfriend Naomi is fast running out of patience with his inability to navigate the simplest of life tasks. He has two uniquely dysfunctional friends and a listless teaching career that sees him begrudgingly teach a version of the same lesson every day, inexplicably popular with all but one of the pupils, with his only highlight coming in the form of Miss Lipsey, a head mistress who views Dan with a mixture of pity and despair. To make matters worse, he is tormented daily by his willfully insane father, whose driving motivation in life seems to be to ensure his son is humiliated at every turn.
Release Date:Â 2013-10-18
Character:Â Dad
Episode Count:Â 6
Vote Count:Â 42
A fast-paced comedy arguing the joys of being dead, aided by a montage of corpses and a dance-crazed Grim Reaper.
Release Date:Â 2013-09-09
Vote Count:Â 1
The Famous Five are back. Thirty years after the Comic Strip arrived on our screens with their famous Enid Blyton spoof - Five Go Mad in Dorset. These famous children's characters have again been brought back from the past to confront today's modern world. This time they are made to account for their racist and sexist views. But they seem blissfully unrepentant as they gather for a reunion on Dick's birthday in leafy Dorset - still a magical land of rolling hills, woods, ruined castles, and of course dodgy villains in big black cars.
Release Date:Â 2012-11-07
Character:Â Mr. McVitty
In true Peter Richardson fashion, "30 Years Of Comic Strip" defies the conventional norms of a retrospective documentary. It brings together some of the most prominent figures in UK comedy, reflecting on the show's impact and influence on the British comedy scene over the past three decades. The documentary unveils previously unseen footage and reconnects with characters from iconic episodes. The cast and crew of The Comic Strip share anecdotes about the making of the show, recounting experiences marked by a playful disregard for health and safety.
Release Date:Â 2012-11-03
Canadian scientist, Dr Geoff Burton takes up a position at a new institute in wintry Dresden in order to contribute to their most important project—a human regeneration gene—that also has the potential to make something miraculous out of a personal tragedy that has haunted him for years.
Release Date:Â 2012-09-23
Character:Â Samuel Mead
Vote Count:Â 54
The Stranger, a tall striking creature dressed in white sets into motions a series of events whilst reciting the Edgar Allen Poe Poem "Eldorado", which will have an effect on those heading towards the mythical city.
Release Date:Â 2012-01-30
Character:Â Chef Mario
Vote Count:Â 16
The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, penned by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens, follows Prime Minister Tony Blair (Stephen Mangan), wanted for murder and on the run. Escaping from Number 10 and leaving behind his adoring wife Cherie (Catherine Shepherd), Tony vows to clear his name no matter what the consequences.
Release Date:Â 2011-10-15
Character:Â Professor Predictor
Vote Count:Â 4
Eleven-year-old Beanie's bland life is changed for ever when he is sent on a mission. Armed only with laser lip-gloss and a pair of blend-in pants he has to save his parents from Evil Stella and return the Golden Nit to its rightful place at the heart of the sun, thereby saving the universe.
Release Date:Â 2011-06-28
Character:Â President Pinky (voice)
Vote Count:Â 3
A year after the collapse of a low-budget British rom-com, documentary maker Andy Wiseman sets out to find out what went wrong. He speaks to the producer, Nicholas Johnson, an alcoholic whose office is a lap-dancing club, the writer, Flynn Beatty, living in a suburban semi, and the deluded 'visionary' director, Harlan Noble, dwelling in deserved obscurity. But as the cast and crew tell their tale, will Andy ever get to the bottom of the farrago that was 'Just for the Record'?
Release Date:Â 2010-05-05
Character:Â Andy Wiseman
Vote Count:Â 4
This documentary marks the 25th anniversary since the first transmission of The Black Adder in 1983 and reunites the iconic cast to give their opinions on all series and specials. Narrated by John Sergeant, this in-depth guide includes interviews from the cast and crew, a clip from the pilot episode, clips from all four series and the specials, opinions about certain moments in the show, and much more. With interviews by Rowan Atkinson, writers Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, producer John Lloyd, Miriam Margolyes, Rik Mayall, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Richardson, Tony Robinson and editor Chris Wadsworth.
Release Date:Â 2008-12-25
Character:Â himself
Vote Count:Â 18
A countdown of the top 40 "Blackadder" moments chosen by cast and crew members, celebrity fans and 15 genuine Blackadders.
Release Date:Â 2008-10-16
Character:Â Lord Flashheart/Self
Vote Count:Â 1
Rik Mayall and his goldfish go to the pub and meet death when they return. Cut-out animated short.
Release Date:Â 2008-01-01
Department:Â Writing
Job:Â Writer
Character:Â Narrator (voice)
Starring Richard Dangerous (Rick Mayall) and Sir Adrian Dangerous (Adrian Edmondson) as the low-life, pervert siblings. Ultra violent slapstick comedy. See them consume cleaning products, snog crocodiles and indulge in kinkyness... particularly dangerous. Putting dynamite down their pants, flying zebras and consuming great quantities of Vim.
Release Date:Â 2008-01-01
Character:Â Richard Dangerous
A look back at the making of the insane sitcom and the impact it caused.
Release Date:Â 2007-10-29
Character:Â Self (Archived Footage)
Prince Charming was supposed to live long and happily with Snow White after kissing her back to life. However the jealous 'good' fairy decides that she and the prince were meant to be, only the start of a whole series of perversions of various fairy tale characters' traditional good nature.
Release Date:Â 2007-01-31
Character:Â The Seven Dwarves (voice)
Vote Count:Â 19
Sindy awakens in a fairytale land where an evil wizard is attempting to overthrow the royal family in order to stop this Prince Hugo must find his true love and marry her within the next day and receive his mother and father, the king and Queens magical powers in order to stop the wizard taking over. Sindy with the help of 3 fairies and a magical unicorn attempt to help Hugo achieve his destiny.
Release Date:Â 2006-02-20
Colombian Luccio and his girlfriend Angie move into a respectable part of Berkshire, learning that Ron and Helen, the previous owners of their house, died mysteriously. Angie discovers that their neighbours, estate agent Roy and his wife Jane, high court judge Charles and his bickering wife Carol and Bilbo, a conceptual artist and his partner were all members of a wife-swapping circle who usually met at Ron and Helen's house. Luccio reveals himself to be a policeman and is curious as to how Ron and Helen died, lining up all the suspects.
Release Date:Â 2005-12-28
Character:Â Bilbo
Vote Count:Â 2
Release Date:Â 2005-09-29
Character:Â George Kinsey
Episode Count:Â 6
King Arthur's Disasters is a British animated series which first aired on CITV, a now defunct programming block on ITV1. The series was Co-Created by Paul Parkes and Will Ashurst, the series follows and depicts attempts by King Arthur, assisted by the wizard Merlin, to woo the beautiful self-obsessed Princess Guinevere. Due to the popularity of the show, it was picked up for a second series which began transmission on CITV from 6 November 2005. Both were Executive Produced by Genevieve Dexter King Arthur's Disasters was the highest rated new CITV show during Spring 2005. It regularly achieved an audience share of over 20% of kids and it regularly won its time slot against CBBC. In 2006 the show was nominated for a children's BAFTA for Best Animation, however lost to The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers.
Release Date:Â 2005-04-11
Episode Count:Â 23
Vote Count:Â 4
Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets out for London. On the way, he meets a smelly but friendly pigeon named Bugsy, who joins him, mainly to get away from clients he cheated in a game of find-the pebble, and helps him sign up for the war.
Release Date:Â 2005-03-25
Character:Â Cufflingk (voice)
Vote Count:Â 911
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
Release Date:Â 2004-12-12
Character:Â Alec Nicholson
Episode Count:Â 1
Vote Count:Â 125
A group of American executives making a film about World War II decide that since their lead is rather unglamorous, they will draft in an American G.I. to play the part of Winston Churchill. Their take on the war depicts a handsome Churchill falling in love with Princess Elizabeth, who is herself involved in the war as an undercover agent.
Release Date:Â 2004-12-03
Department:Â Crew
Job:Â Additional Dialogue
Character:Â Baxter
Vote Count:Â 35
The only word to describe the amazing duo of Rik Mayall and Adrian Edminson is genius. For the past 25 years they have provided us with some unforgettable programs that left us on the floor such as The Young Ones, The Dangerous Brothers and of course, Bottom. The DVD contains the very best and violent bits from the live shows and TV programmes that have starred the two slapstick legends in the past 25 years. With the help of the great comedy writers such as Ben Elton, they have produced many great moments, such as the sprouts of doom and the towering inferno impression that went horrifically wrong. Here they are, all of the great moments on 1 disc. Here is what you can expect from the greatest compilation of slapstick moments of all time!!!
Release Date:Â 2004-11-22
Character:Â Ritchard Ritchard
Vote Count:Â 1
The Paul O'Grady Show is a British comedy chat show hosted by Birkenhead-born comedian Paul O'Grady. The format was originally devised by Granada Television and was broadcast on ITV before moving to Channel 4, where the show was produced by Olga TV. The programme is a teatime chat show consisting of a mixture of celebrity guests, comic stunts, musical performances, and occasionally viewer competitions.
Release Date:Â 2004-10-11
Episode Count:Â 1
Vote Count:Â 11
Shoebox Zoo is an urban fantasy TV series made in a collaboration between BBC Scotland and various Canadian television companies. It is mostly live-action, but with CGI used for the animal figurines. The show centers on the story of a young girl named Marnie McBride, who is given a shoebox containing four toy animals by a mysterious old man at a junk shop, as a gift for her 11th birthday. These magical toys have the power to come alive on Marnie’s command, and they’re on a quest to find an ancient book that once belonged to a great and powerful wizard.
Release Date:Â 2004-09-21
Character:Â Edwin the Eagle (voice)
Episode Count:Â 26
Vote Count:Â 5
ABBA - THE LAST VIDEO is the film about four hopeful musicians in search of a record contract. They pay a visit to the Big Record Company Boss and his oily assistant, performing one hit after the other, cheered on by their manager. But things don't really work out as planned...Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Frida look just like they did back then... or perhaps not.
Release Date:Â 2004-05-12
Character:Â Record Producer
Vote Count:Â 9
Eddie has locked himself away in the toilet and Richie finds he's been inventing gadgets and only to find himself joining Eddie on a adventure through time and space on-board Eddie's time machine "The Turdis" which is a toilet cubicle.
Release Date:Â 2003-11-24
Character:Â Richard Richard
Vote Count:Â 22
Two young newlyweds, geeky Edward and innocent but alluring Samantha, turn up at a majestic and remote country house hotel for their honeymoon, which has been taken over by the high-spirited members of an Undertakers' Annual Convention. Their attempts at romance are quickly dampened as they become helplessly embroiled in an intriguing whodunit when the Head of the Funeral Directors' Association dies under bizarre circumstances.
Release Date:Â 2003-05-15
Character:Â Lennox Crowley
Vote Count:Â 2
Marbella, the original Costa del Sol paradise for the rich and famous and for those wishing they were.
Release Date:Â 2003-01-01
Character:Â Greg Dubois
Vote Count:Â 4
Believe Nothing is a British ITV sitcom starring Rik Mayall as Quadruple Professor Adonis Cnut, the cleverest man in Britain, and Oxford's leading moral philosopher. He is paid huge amounts of money for his views consulted by the government but he's bored and wants adventure so he joins the shadowy organization The Council which controls everything going on in the world. Starring alongside Mayall is Michael Maloney as Brian Albumen, Cnut's faithful servant, and Emily Bruni as Dr. Hannah Awkward who becomes professor of pedantics. The series was written by Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks, who give a twist to many of today's global issues. Although much hyped by ITV, who were hoping to repeat the success of Gran and Marks' previous project with Mayall, the successful The New Statesman, the series failed to catch on, and was dropped after one series.
Release Date:Â 2002-07-14
Character:Â Professor Adonis Cnut
Episode Count:Â 6
Vote Count:Â 6
A serial killer goes out in a blaze of terror on a summer's day in London
Release Date:Â 2002-01-01
Vote Count:Â 1
Richie and Eddie escapes from the island and try to get to the bar to have a drink, only to find themselves trapped in a underground chamber and Richie thinks they've been abducted by aliens.
Release Date:Â 2001-10-19
Department:Â Writing
Job:Â Writer
Character:Â Richie
Vote Count:Â 21
If Arthur Conan Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on a real person to any degree, it was on his former professor, forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Bell. This series recounts the fictional murder investigations that Bell might have undertaken with the assistance of young student Doyle.
Release Date:Â 2001-09-04
Character:Â Lt. Daniel Blaney
Episode Count:Â 1
Vote Count:Â 13
A man must participate in the Iditarod dog race across Alaska to inherit property from his legendary grandfather, but ends up getting much more than he bargained for.
Release Date:Â 2001-01-01
Character:Â Carter
Vote Count:Â 38
When Merlin cast a positive spell to protect the knights of the Round Table, he used ancient magic drawing on the power of Stonehenge, and the knights were put into a sort of suspended animation. The evil Morgana and her son Mordred were banished into another world for 1500 years, but a 20th-century scientist finds a gateway, and the dark lord has a vicious scheme to enslave King Arthur's world.
Release Date:Â 2000-12-22
Character:Â Merlin
Vote Count:Â 55
Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar first exploded onto the West End stage in 1971 and it was clear that the musical world would never be the same again. For the first time ever, Jesus Christ Superstar has been specially filmed for video. Shot at Pinewood Studios, this brand new filmed stage version starring Glenn Carter and Rik Mayall captures one of the best score Andrew Lloyd Webber has ever written and is packed with hit songs including, 'I Don't Know How To Love Him', 'Gethsemane' and 'Superstar'.
Release Date:Â 2000-10-16
Character:Â King Herod
Vote Count:Â 30
One day in Jolly World something very strange happens. It begins to snow. Strum, Bouncey, Amber and friends, have never seen anything like this before and are most perplexed. Things get even stranger when a jolly old man with a white beard and red suit turns up. Who is he? What does he want with them? What does 'Ho ho ho' mean?
Release Date:Â 2000-09-30
Character:Â Narrator
One day in Jolly World something very strange happens, it begins to snow. Strum, Bouncey, Amber and friends, have never seen anything like this before and are most perplexed. Things get even stranger when a jolly old man with a white beard and red suit turns up. Who is he? What does he want with them? What does 'Ho ho ho' mean?
Release Date:Â 2000-09-30
Character:Â Narrator (Voice)
Salesmen Alan, Ian, Tim, and the pushy Tony are on a plane on their way to a sales conference. Alan joins the mile-high club with a model in the toilet but Tim is annoyed that he is two air miles short of joining the others in club class. On arrival in North Africa, they decide to charter a plane rather than face a fifteen-hour coach journey to the conference.
Release Date:Â 2000-01-04
Character:Â Alan Sellars
Richie and Eddie are in charge of the worst hotel in the UK, Guest House Paradiso, neighbouring a nuclear power plant. The illegal immigrant chef has fled and all the guests have gone. But when a famous Italian filmstar, Gina Carbonara, who is in hiding from a fiance she doesn't want to marry, arrives at the hotel, things get very interesting!
Release Date:Â 1999-12-03
Department:Â Writing
Job:Â Screenplay
Character:Â Richie
Vote Count:Â 135
Go behind the scenes with the late, great Rik Mayall (Richie) and Ade Edmondson (Eddie) as they take us on a tour behind the scenes of Guest House Paradiso, the long-awaited movie based on the hit 90's BBC comedy 'Bottom'.
Release Date:Â 1999-11-15
Character:Â Himself
Vote Count:Â 1
Part compilation/ part mockumentary on the first three Bottom live shows. Various characters around Hammersmith are interviewed on their relationships with Richard Richard and Edward Elizabeth Hitler, interspersed with footage from the live shows.
Release Date:Â 1999-11-15
Vote Count:Â 4
Follows the lives of a group of rabbits as they leave their endangered warren in search of a safe new home. They travel across the English countryside, braving perilous danger, until they find a hill called Watership Down, where they begin a new warren. However, they face various threats and are soon forced to defend their home and lives.
Release Date:Â 1999-09-28
Episode Count:Â 39
Vote Count:Â 11
What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing and hurls him and his imbecile underling, Baldrick, through the course of human history.
Release Date:Â 1999-03-29
Character:Â Robin Hood
Vote Count:Â 166
A series of killings of bank managers has London in a turmoil, all the way up to Parliament. And the killer regularly calls about his handiwork, but only to a street-wise, and usually rather tipsy, radio reporter, about to be sacked for his habitual irreverence toward his station and the BBC. And while everything seems to point to a lead singer of a rock group famous for the "In The Red" music which has been connected to the killings, in typical British mystery fashion, there are also other sub-plots to be considered.
Release Date:Â 1998-05-26
Character:Â Dominic De'Ath
Episode Count:Â 3
Vote Count:Â 5
Four salesmen Alan, Ian, Steve and Tim are on their way to a conference where only one of them is guaranteed promotion. There is much bickering, Steve is perpetually sick and gets put in the boot, the C.D. player jams and they have a run-in with a Range Rover driver. When the car breaks down in a snowstorm they wind up in a deserted cottage with a shotgun-wielding, diabetic woman.
Release Date:Â 1998-04-12
Character:Â Alan
'The Canterville Ghost' is one of the most popular choice for making a film in Oscar Wilde's works, and the original short story deserves the popularity. It is a witty spoof about a ghost and the 'haunted' mansion where a rich American family start to live. In this story, the family are not annoyed by the presence of the ghost; no, it is the ghost who is annoyed by the family who just refuse to be terrified. After all, why should we be scared by an old man wearing rusty coat of mail, whose best trick is to walk in the middle of night making big noises?
Release Date:Â 1997-10-31
Character:Â Reverend Dampier
Filmed during their sell-out 1997 tour, Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island features Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson at their comedic finest. This time around Richie Richard (Mayall) and Eddie Hitler (Edmondson) are marooned on a desert island in the middle of the Pacific.
Release Date:Â 1997-10-27
Character:Â Richie Richard
Vote Count:Â 23
Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.
Release Date:Â 1997-05-09
Character:Â D.I. Gideon Pryke
Vote Count:Â 62
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
Release Date:Â 1997-03-23
Character:Â David Roper
Episode Count:Â 1
Vote Count:Â 317
Marla Darland is blessed with the voice of an angel, a singing legend. But when her agent, Marty Starr, finds his agency in trouble, he concocts a sinister plot to bring up her record sales. Amazed at the posthumous record sales of Elvis and Jimi Hendrix, Marty becomes determined to arrange a similar fate for Marla, staging the perfect tragic demise. But he didn't count on Marla not being quite ready to go.
Release Date:Â 1997-01-16
Character:Â Marty Starr
Vote Count:Â 10
A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected arrival of one of the wife's old flames.
Release Date:Â 1997-01-02
Vote Count:Â 1
Hailed as the "rightful heir" to "The Wind in the Willows", William Horwood's critically acclaimed sequel comes to magical life in this beautifully animated feature-length classic. Join four of the best-loved characters in children's literature for their heart-warming and hilarious new adventure along the Riverbank, narrated by Academy Award-winner Vanessa Redgrave.
Release Date:Â 1996-12-26
Character:Â Toad
Vote Count:Â 11
Bottom Fluff is a collection of bloopers from all 3 series of bottom.
Release Date:Â 1996-11-16
Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, who plan to build a dog food factory on the very meadow sold to them by Toad himself.
Release Date:Â 1995-12-24
Character:Â Toad
Vote Count:Â 32
Queen Elizabeth is attending a parade in Hammersmith and Richie and Eddie plans on inviting the Queen to join them for supper. But their plan goes wrong.
Release Date:Â 1995-11-06
Character:Â Richie
Vote Count:Â 24
Set in the baby's perspective of the first years of its life, almost an instructional video for baby's explaining how to be the worst infant you can be and why.
Release Date:Â 1995-09-19
Episode Count:Â 10
Vote Count:Â 1
A teenager who's fed up with his uneventful life of social isolation decides to try drugs to get some excitement. He sets out to learn about their effects.
Release Date:Â 1995-07-08
Character:Â Ricky / The Doctor / Tobi
Vote Count:Â 1
Release Date:Â 1995-05-20
Character:Â Rattner
Episode Count:Â 6
Comedy thriller notable for the remarkably un-manic and restrained performance by Rik Mayall as single parent and part-time minicab driver Toby. Trying to juggle being Dad to seven -year old daughter Annie and study whilst also working at night for taxi controller Pete is hard enough. But when one night he crosses paths with mysterious femme fatal Clair, he finds himself plunged into a wild and hazardous adventure involving exploding manor houses, vengeful lovers and a magic medieval tournament.
Release Date:Â 1995-02-12
Character:Â Toby
A tramp called Raymond finds his life changes radically when he gets his hands on a sought-after film script.
Release Date:Â 1995-02-05
Character:Â Raymond
Rik Mayall plays an estate agent who takes on the identity of a dead gangster.
Release Date:Â 1995-01-29
Character:Â Lewis Fox
Far away, in her vast ice palace, the Snow Queen plots to rule the world by deflecting all the sun's warmth away from Earth so that it freezes over. But her mirror breaks, and on her mission to find all the missing pieces, she kidnaps Tom, who has part of the mirror in his body. Can his sister Ellie save Tom, and stop the evil Queen from achieving global dominance?
Release Date:Â 1995-01-01
Character:Â Robber King
Vote Count:Â 20
The Knock is a British television drama series, created by Anita Bronson and broadcast on ITV from 1994 to 2000, which portrayed the activities of customs officers from Her Majesty's Customs and Excise. The series derived its name from the distinctive "Knock knock knock" command used over the radio to synchronise a raid.
Release Date:Â 1994-04-10
Episode Count:Â 1
Vote Count:Â 1
Richie buys an inflatable doll named Monica as his lover, and he tries to conceal it from Eddie. But it all goes terribly wrong when Richie accidentally super glues Monica to his groin, mistaking Eddie's super glue for Handcream.
Release Date:Â 1993-09-27
Character:Â Richie
Vote Count:Â 25
It is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas, and upon every grain of sand in the vast deserts, that the world which we see is an outward and visible dream, of an inward and invisible reality ... Once upon a time there was a golden city. In the center of the golden city, atop the tallest minaret, were three golden balls. The ancients had prophesied that if the three golden balls were ever taken away, harmony would yield to discord, and the city would fall to destruction and death. But... the mystics had also foretold that the city might be saved by the simplest soul with the smallest and simplest of things. In the city there dwelt a lowly shoemaker, who was known as Tack the Cobbler. Also in the city... existed a Thief, who shall be... nameless.
Release Date:Â 1993-09-23
Character:Â Brigand (uncredited)
Vote Count:Â 126
Dancing Queen is a 1993 British romantic comedy film starring Rik Mayall and Helena Bonham Carter. It follows the misfortune of Neil (Mayall), a bridegroom trying to get back to his bride with the help of his newfound friend Pandora/Julie (Bonham Carter) the stripper. It was the third episode of the first series of the Granada Television series Rik Mayall Presents.
Release Date:Â 1993-06-03
Character:Â Neil
Vote Count:Â 12
Having just met at a party, Siobhan brings back Greg to her flat for what might be a night of of unbridled passion. Greg really thinks his luck's in but things don't go quite according to plan as he doesn't account for Siobhan's pet dog putting a spanner in the works when it attacks him. Forced to defend himself Greg seemingly kills his beautiful hosts beloved pet and in attempting to cover up it's demise the night descends in to a chaotic night of misunderstood intentions which neither will ever forget...that's if either lives to remember it.
Release Date:Â 1993-05-27
Character:Â Greg
Vote Count:Â 6
Mickey Love is an aging television quiz show host who after climbing his way back to the top after conquering alcoholism has hosted the highly rated "Family Values" for over ten years. But when he hears a false rumor that his show will be axed to make way for a new one to be hosted by young upstart Greg Deane. Mickey bitterly resorts to desperate measures to cling on to his career. Little does Mickey know however is that his bosses actually have something else in store for him.
Release Date:Â 1993-05-20
Character:Â Micky Love
Vote Count:Â 6
Showcasing the talent and versatility of its star, Rik Mayall Presents comprises six episodes of dark humour spread over two series, where he plays such diverse roles as a paranoid TV show host, an uncontrollable liar who pretends to be a gangster and a man on a date who is trapped in a cycle of escalating comic violence!
Release Date:Â 1993-05-20
Episode Count:Â 6
Vote Count:Â 3
Set in the badlands of the American west, where men were men and women got slapped a lot. Horse Opera is a strange journey through the mind of George, a minor clerk in the Tax office, and chairman of Nottingham cowboy society. As the boundry between fantasy and reality blur George stumbles through the myth of the heroic west.
Release Date:Â 1993-01-01
Character:Â Wyatt Earp
Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...
Release Date:Â 1992-10-02
Character:Â The Sultan
Vote Count:Â 40
A struggling writer steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune.
Release Date:Â 1992-04-24
Character:Â Mathias Liechstenstein
Vote Count:Â 5
A clown is not happy with his job at his father's circus so he gets into politics, and some weeks later he is the Prime Minister John Major. But after his day job, he has to attend to his real job as Coco the Clown. He falls in love with the leader of the opposition party but she falls in love with Coco the Clown without knowing that he is in fact John Major, the Prime Minister.
Release Date:Â 1992-04-09
Character:Â James Huntington
Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class, Alex & cohorts attempt to go on a rampage. Meanwhile, General Karprov and Spider plot to involve the inept anarchists into their plans to derail the prime-minister-to-be's campaign.
Release Date:Â 1987-10-23
Department:Â [ "Writing" ]
Job:Â [ "Writer" ]
Character:Â Micky
Episode Count:Â [ 18 ]
Vote Count:Â 32
The story is about the Princess Irene and a young warrior boy named Curty. Irene must use her magic power to fight off goblins and save the kingdom.
Release Date:Â 1991-06-03
Character:Â Prince Froglip
Vote Count:Â 42
When Elizabeth returns to her mother's home after her marriage breaks up, she recreates her imaginary childhood friend, Fred, to escape from the trauma of losing her husband and her job. In between the chaos and mayhem that Fred creates, Elizabeth attempts to win back her husband and return to normality.
Release Date:Â 1991-04-19
Character:Â Drop Dead Fred
Vote Count:Â 376
The Greater London Council fight to save the capital against the wicked Ice Maiden.
Release Date:Â 1990-02-05
Character:Â Lord Mayor of London
The Mad Kevin Turvey has been hired by the BBC to investigate things
Release Date:Â 1989-10-16
Department:Â Writing
Job:Â Writer
Character:Â Kevin Turvey
Vote Count:Â 2
Grim Tales is an animated British television program based on fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, featuring Rik Mayall as the storyteller dressed in his pyjamas and dressing gown. The twenty-two episodes were broadcast on ITV from 1989 to 1991,The series is rated TV-14 the released on video and audio cassette, with the slightly different title Grimm Tales.
Release Date:Â 1989-04-14
Episode Count:Â 22
Vote Count:Â 3
John Cleese training video about employees.
Release Date:Â 1989-01-01
A couple of bored escorts find themselves suddenly involved with a hit gang and an ax murderer - Mr. Jolly. Gratuitous violence, rivers of blood, and maximum hilarity, all rolled into one.
Release Date:Â 1988-03-05
Department:Â Writing
Job:Â Writer
Character:Â Dreamy Time Escort
Vote Count:Â 4
Four years after they were last the subject of a documentary, the heavy metal band Bad News get back together again for another film of their exploits, beginning with a reunion gig at the Flying Horse.
Release Date:Â 1988-02-27
Character:Â Colin Grigson
Vote Count:Â 4
Paul, a former miner, writes a hard-hitting screenplay about his own experiences of the 1984 miners' strike. However, the Hollywood production company that gets hold of his script turns it into a ludicrously sensationalist and anachronistic action film, starring Al Pacino as Arthur Scargill, and Meryl Streep as his wife.
Release Date:Â 1988-02-20
Character:Â Speaker/Hunchback
Vote Count:Â 3
A normal teenager is transported to a Monty Pythonesque medieval fantasy land where an odd, adamant knight takes him on a quest.
Release Date:Â 1988-01-01
Character:Â Troll
Vote Count:Â 1
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
Release Date:Â 1987-09-13
Character:Â Alan B'Stard
Episode Count:Â 26
Vote Count:Â 46
French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act.
Release Date:Â 1987-03-09
Character:Â Cameo
Episode Count:Â 1
Vote Count:Â 34
Hardwicke House was a 1987 seven-episode sitcom produced by Central Independent Television for the ITV network. It was so negatively received that only the first two episodes were transmitted.
Release Date:Â 1987-02-24
Character:Â Lenny
Episode Count:Â 1
Vote Count:Â 4
Richie causes trouble in his pursuit of TV fame with Eddie, his alcoholic minder, and Filthy, his sponging agent.
Release Date:Â 1987-01-07
Department:Â Writing
Job:Â Writer
Character:Â Richard Rich
Episode Count:Â 6
Vote Count:Â 27
When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.
Release Date:Â 1986-05-06
Character:Â S.A.S Commander
Vote Count:Â 17
The comedy event of the year took place in April 1986 at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. All those taking part gave their services free in order to support the famine relief camp in Umbala in the west of Sudan. Tonight Omnibus, in collaboration with Charity Projects, presents the best comic talents in Britain today. Among those appearing: Rowan Atkinson, Frank Bruno, Kate Bush, Graham Chapman, Billy Connolly, Ronnie Corbett, Paul Eddington, Ben Elton, French and Saunders, Stephen Fry, Bob Geldof, Terry Gilliam, Lenny Henry, Howard Jones, Terry Jones, Hugh Laurie, Hank Marvin, Rik Mayall, Michael Palin, Cliff Richard, Pamela Stephenson, Spitting Image, Midge Ure, The Young Ones.
Release Date:Â 1986-04-25
Episode Count:Â 1
Vote Count:Â 1
Saturday Live was a British television comedy and music show broadcast by Channel 4 from 1985 to 1987, and in 1988 as Friday Night Live. Influenced by the American show Saturday Night Live, it was produced by Paul Jackson. The series made stars of Ben Elton, Harry Enfield, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, and featured appearances by Patrick Marber, Morwenna Banks, Chris Barrie, Emo Philips, Craig Ferguson, Craig Charles and many others. The show featured comic duo Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall in their act The Dangerous Brothers. All episodes were transmitted live, although some material was pre-recorded. Recordings of shows were edited into compilation repeats, retitled Saturday Almost Live. The show was succeeded by Friday Night Live, a shorter and slightly more tightly-formatted show with Elton as the permanent host, which ran for a single series in 1988. The show's titles consisted of reforming clay animations, highly comparable to early MTV idents.
Release Date:Â 1986-01-25
Episode Count:Â 30
Vote Count:Â 3
Whilst delivering toilet rolls to a recording studio, small-time crook Keith pockets a demo tape by the newly disbanded group Toy Department, which he takes to a promoter, Brian. Together they have a chart hit with the 'mystery' group but complications arise when Brian wants a live tour.
Release Date:Â 1986-01-02
Character:Â Ali Kitson
The Dangerous Brothers was a stage and TV act by anarchic comedy duo Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson, performing respectively as "Richard Dangerous" and "Sir (or occasionally Lady) Adrian Dangerous". Although originating before the show, they appeared in a number of brief sketches in the 1980s TV programme Saturday Live. Eventually being banned for being "too sexy and too violent", they staged a protest by returning as 'The Ben Elton Brothers', and blowing up the car park at LWT Studios. One of the final sketches prepared for Saturday Live was entitled 'Kinky Sex'. This fell foul of Channel 4 censors who banned it. The duo responded in the sketch Dangervision by apparently hijacking the programme and blowing up the wall on which the show's logo was painted in graffiti art. The banned sketch, which by modern standards seems fairly tame, was finally released on a compilation video The Dangerous Brothers present: World of Danger.
Release Date:Â 1986-01-01
Character:Â Richard Dangerous
Vote Count:Â 12
Jessica, the second Mrs Saunders, arrives with her new husband John at his country estate. Very much left to her own devices she is unnerved by the power that Consuela, the sinister Spanish housekeeper,seems to wield, comparing her to John's first wife and forbidding her to enter a mysterious locked room.
Release Date:Â 1986-01-01
Character:Â Richard
The Dangerous Brothers was a stage and TV act by anarchic comedy duo Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson, performing respectively as "Richard Dangerous" and "Sir Adrian Dangerous". Originally appearing on stage in London at the comedy club 'The Comic Strip', the characters were well developed before appearing on TV. First appearing on television on a one off 1980 BBC TV show 'Boom Boom Out Go The Lights', they were also featured in a TV short 'documentary' film 'The Comic Strip', directed by Julien Temple, before they appeared in a number of brief sketches in the TV programme Saturday Live from 1985 on.
Release Date:Â 1986-01-01
Department:Â Creator
Job:Â Creator
Character:Â Richard Dangerous
Episode Count:Â [ 12 ]
Happy Families was a rural comedy drama written by Ben Elton which appeared on the BBC in 1985 and told the story of the dysfunctional Fuddle family. It starred Jennifer Saunders as Granny Fuddle, Dawn French as the Cook and Adrian Edmondson as her imbecilic grandson Guy. The plot centred around Guy's attempts to find his four sisters - also played by Saunders, for a family reunion.
Release Date:Â 1985-10-17
Character:Â Priest
Episode Count:Â 1
Vote Count:Â 5
Double act Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball entertain us with their own unique brand of humour. The programmes feature various sketch shows along with many celebrity guests.
Release Date:Â 1985-04-07
Character:Â Self
A hoodlum is turned into a celebrity when he steals a cab and subsequent events are blown out of proportion by the media.
Release Date:Â 1984-01-28
Character:Â Tim
Two students calling themselves Carlos and Miguel arrive in Spain dressed as gunslingers to live out their dream of being in a spaghetti Western. At a cafe in a remote town they meet two Australian girls who have picked up a scruffy hitch-hiker and a would-be rapist dressed as a matador.
Release Date:Â 1984-01-21
Department:Â Writing
Job:Â Writer
Character:Â Carlos
Vote Count:Â 1
Postman Bean is anxious to end his round early to catch a morning showing of 'The Sound of Muzak' at his local cinema. However, he is unaware that the cinema manager Terry Toadstool is using this as a smoke screen to view a pornographic film and that Bean's wife, traffic warden Monica, is the star.
Release Date:Â 1984-01-07
Department:Â Writing
Job:Â Writer
Character:Â Toadstool
Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of the First World War.
Release Date:Â 1983-06-15
Character:Â Mad Gerald
Episode Count:Â 1
Vote Count:Â 478
A motley band of suburbanites arrives at a summer school to simulate life in an Iron Age village. However, the village is right in the middle of a modern university campus which somewhat detracts from its air of authenticity.
Release Date:Â 1983-01-31
Character:Â Tark
A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock journalist Sally at a motorway service station where they argue about the cost of sausage and chips.
Release Date:Â 1983-01-24
Character:Â Colin Grigson
Vote Count:Â 6
In the monochrome world of 1960, pretentious Alan, violent Kix and sex-mad Eleanor are part of a colony of beat poets, living a hedonistic, unreal existence in a large villa overlooking the sea. Dumped by his girlfriend Jeremy is anxious to be part of their circle until two girls from the outside world and a wild party open his eyes to what really matters.
Release Date:Â 1983-01-17
Character:Â Jeremy
1985:- England has been invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries and middle-class couple Hermine and Godfrey retreat to their rural hide-away but after witnessing a bunch of incompetent commandos kill each other, they get separated.
Release Date:Â 1983-01-03
Character:Â Various Roles
Vote Count:Â 1
The misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rick, the overblown political one addicted to Cliff Richard, Vyvyan the experimental scientific one/part-time anarchist, Neil the worried hippy, and Mike the ladies' man (at least he is in his mind).
Release Date:Â 1982-11-09
Department:Â Writing
Job:Â Writer
Character:Â Rick
Episode Count:Â 12
Vote Count:Â 134
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip Presents... which was labelled as an example of alternative comedy. The core members are Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Alexei Sayle with frequent appearances by Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane and others.
Release Date:Â 1982-11-02
Department:Â Writing
Job:Â Writer
Character:Â Bilbo
Episode Count:Â 3
Vote Count:Â 16
A middle-aged doctor has an affair with the student actor she's housing during the Edinburgh Festival.
Release Date:Â 1982-05-15
Character:Â Chris
Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.
Release Date:Â 1982-05-04
Character:Â Self
Episode Count:Â 2
Vote Count:Â 6
Whoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 British sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and Renwick later reworked the concept as a 1986 film of the same name from ITC Entertainment, with almost completely different characters and plot, although one or two of the original actors returned in different roles. The series has a big cult audience, and copies of videos are heavily sought after. The British budget label Channel 5 Video released a compilation cassette of all six episodes edited together into one 137-minute chunk in 1987. In 2010 Network DVD released both the complete, unedited series and the movie on a 2-DVD set entitled Whoops Apocalypse: The Complete Apocalypse.. John Otway also recorded a song called "Whoops Apocalypse", which was used as the theme song for the film. He occasionally performs it live.
Release Date:Â 1982-03-14
Episode Count:Â 1
Vote Count:Â 9
A week in the life of Redditch investigative reporter Kevin Turvey. As you would expect, not a lot happens!
Release Date:Â 1982-03-13
Department:Â Writing
Job:Â Writer
Character:Â Kevin Turvey
Vote Count:Â 3
Wood and Walters is a British BAFTA nominated comedy sketch show starring Julie Walters and Victoria Wood for Granada Television and written entirely by Wood. The show was short-lived, with just one pilot in 1981 and seven episodes broadcast in 1982.
Release Date:Â 1982-01-01
Episode Count:Â 7
Vote Count:Â 4
Charthurst Green, Kent, 1966. Pauline Cox accompanies Mike Robins to a village cricket match in which he is playing, but becomes bored and wanders away. She fetches up at the local railway station, where she is first entertained to tea by the garrulous, hunchbacked station master, then upset by the intrusion of the latter's assistant Ewen, who proceeds to kill a rabbit in her presence. Making her way back to the match, Pauline is waylaid by the simple-minded Ewen as she crosses an apple orchard; when his advances become violent, she tries to fight him off and he strangles her. The station master helps in covering up the murder, burying the corpse in the orchard.
Release Date:Â 1981-11-01
Character:Â Policeman
Vote Count:Â 9
Couples and Robbers is a 1981 English language comedy/crime film written and directed by Clare Peploe, starring Frances Low, Rik Mayall and Peter Eyre. Two couples -- one with all the riches that dreams are made of, the other with only dreams and schemes -- are brought together by the plotting of the poorer couple. A pair of newlyweds wander through the city streets, bickering about their poverty, until they are distracted by the opulent home of a lawyer. Impulsively, the couple makes off with the lawyer's vehicle for one night of extravagant indulgence. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Release Date:Â 1981-10-07
Character:Â Morris David Boyd
Vote Count:Â 6
Comedy sketch show taking an irreverent look at life in the eighties, starring Tracey Ullman, Miriam Margolyes and Richard Stilgoe, plus Rik Mayall as Kevin Turvey.
Release Date:Â 1981-09-21
Episode Count:Â 10
Vote Count:Â 4
American tourists David and Jack are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. Retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon experiences disturbing changes to his mind and body.
Release Date:Â 1981-08-21
Character:Â Second Chess Player
Vote Count:Â 2496
Brad and Janet are now married and on the rocks. Ostensibly to fix their marriage, the couple goes on the game show 'Marriage Maze' with the eccentric Bert Schnick, who suggests Brad be imprisoned in the local mental hospital. Meanwhile, Janet's star potential is skyrocketing but who is her mysterious benefactor, and who exactly are these doctors?
Release Date:Â 1981-08-21
Character:Â 'Rest Home' Ricky
Vote Count:Â 96
Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.
Release Date:Â 1981-07-24
Character:Â Sailor #2
Vote Count:Â 232
A 1981 documentary looking at the Cult following of the Rocky Horror show and introducing the sequel "Shock Treatment".
Release Date:Â 1981-02-04
Character:Â (archive footage)
A black policeman is promoted to the CID and battles the drug trade in London's East End.
Release Date:Â 1981-01-13
Character:Â PC Fell
Episode Count:Â 3
Vote Count:Â 1
A tongue-in-cheek "behind the scenes" look at the Comic Strip comedy club in the early 1980s, which gave rise to 'The Comic Strip Presents'
Release Date:Â 1981-01-01
Department:Â Writing
Job:Â Writer
Character:Â
Groundbreaking alternative comedy programme bringing the new wave of humour to television for the first time.
Release Date:Â 1980-10-14
Episode Count:Â 2
Vote Count:Â 1
A comedy variety show featuring the double act of Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball.
Release Date:Â 1979-07-28
Character:Â Clerk
Episode Count:Â 1